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In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself
By Marsh, John
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- 9781583674758
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- Monthly Review
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Reviewed on February 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Marsh (English, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys; Class Dismissed) describes his third book as "a mix of biography, literary criticism, manifesto, and, I am not embarrassed to say, self-help." Marsh argues that Americans could lift themselves out of their current malaise by reading carefully the poetry and prose of Walt Whitman (1819–92). He meticulously examines Whitman's ruminations on death, debt, capitalism, socialism, sexuality in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
